After two years of pandemic-caused virtual programming, CU Boulder’s Conference on World Affairs is back in person. It opens today and runs through Saturday. Eleven committees composed of students and community volunteers have chosen to address topics from six thematic areas such as: Art, Business, Human Conditions, International Affairs, Science […]
Boulder’s City Council met last night for the first time since its spring recess. There was only one item on the agenda; the creation of a library district. Boulder Beat’s Shay Castle spoke with News Director Shannon Young to recap the meeting. Listen: (Download Audio)
Fancy a ghost story set in a ghost town? Well that’s what author M. Dressler is serving up in her book, Our Eyes at Night. It’s the third novel in her Last Ghost series. Dressler will be presenting her book this evening at the Westminster location of the Tattered Cover […]
On this week’s Labor Exchange we talk with Carl Smith, a railroad brakeman/switchman currently serving as Colorado State Legislative Director for SMART - Transportation Division. We talk about a new attendance policy at BNSF railroad described by the Guardian newspaper as grueling and arcane. To support BNSF workers, text NoHiViz […]
Homemade puzzle at one of the event's creative art stations (photo credit: Ning Mosberger-Tang) The Boulder County Farmers Market made its spring comeback this Saturday, drawing throngs of visitors on a beautiful, sunny day. Next to the market, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art was also bustling. KGNU’s Shannon Young […]
The March 2022 selection for the Radio Bookclub is The Tenderest of Strings, a novel by author Steven Schwartz set in a fictitious small town in northeast Colorado. The novel tells the story of Reuben and Ardith Rosenfeld and their two children who move from Chicago to the small town […]
WAYS & MEANS by Roger Lowenstein reveals the largely untold story of how Lincoln used the urgency and perils of the Civil War to transform a group of states into a nation. He describes the differences in how the North and the South financed the war, what Mr. Putin today in […]